New Yorker.

Crooner.

Painter.

Maestro.

In memoriam, some favorite quotes:

“I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.“

pp 20

“There’s a push and pull with the creative process. That’s why I learned never to give up, even if it feels as if it’s not happening the first time around. Keep going; keep plowing through it.“

pp 128

“I wasn’t in the Rat Pack. I was in New York; they were out there. I had my singing and painting.”

pp 57

From: Bennett, Tony. Sullivan, Robert. Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music. New York: Sterling Publishing, 2007.